FWIW, I really wish that asymmetric scaling of text had not been added — far better to use a typeface family such as Univers which has a suitable width/weight, or, if supporting it, limit it to only typefaces which have a weight axis such as Myriad (and add support for Multiple Master fonts).

For folks who are curious about the underlying typographic reason for different fonts being different sizes when set to the same nominal size see:

Or at least an informal one? Anything that makes it more convenient for me to update the Inkscape C2D import extension and MergeC2D utilities would be appreciated.

Of course, if updates to Carbide Create make it so you can import an additional file or files into an open workspace, the MergeC2D utilities would be rendered obsolete. I for one would welcome that project becoming superfluous, as the feature would benefit all users of Carbide Create. (The Inkscape C2D import extension will still have its strong use case.)

FWIW I gave the new beta a try a couple nights ago and it seemed to work really well (for drawing at least, I didn’t actually carve anything). The whole GUI seems a little snappier, like it doesn’t bog when editing/adding tool paths. This could all be my imagination, but it “felt” better. I still use Vectric VCarve desktop for most of my stuff, but sometimes I like to use CC for some profiles outside the 24x24" Desktop limit. Never can have enough tools!! Good work guys!

Thanks Dan. We had to make some internal changes for the “Aztec Calendar” files and I think those changes ended up helping out a lot overall. VCarve is a great program but we’d like to keep making CC better so that you don’t need to use VCarve anymore. (That’s going to take some time but we’ll keep at it)

@ClayJar - Regarding the file format, it’s not a big change but the control points for curves are different now and they actually match the way SVG paths work. CP1, CP2 are now the control points that lead into the current point, not the control point immediately before and after the current point as it was prior to 400.

Ok, now the funny thing.
I tried again, this time I used the tool #13 which is created if you add a new tool.
I start CC 400 with admin rights. Same thing.
I had a look into the registry after closing CC 400:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Carbide 3D\Carbide Create\tools@ByteArray([
{
“angle”: 0,
“corner_radius”: 0,
“diameter”: 4,
“display_mm”: true,
“flutes”: 2,
“length”: 11,
“name”: “4x11 ebay”,
“number”: 13,
“overall_length”: 0,
“uuid”: “{24167ef0-2da0-4a38-9bf4-41f4740ff4cd}”
}
]
)

So tool is in there.
Starting CC again without loading any file, creating a rectangle and adding a toolpath.
-> #13 is not in the lib, even if i saw it in registry before.
Now I closed CC without saving the project

I have not tried 401 yet but I understood that in the new version 400, if you wrote some text at 1.5in high, it would be consistent between two separate lines of text but it isn’t the case when I try this in 400. Did I misunderstand?

Edit: 401 works fine, I was able to write two lines at 1.5in with the actual same text height great!

OK this morning I opened the file I had created in 401 and I cannot edit the toolpaths I had created; they will not open. I can disable them but can’t open the toolpaths to check out the cutting info. Has anyone experienced this issue?

Has anyone had problems with the z axis when beginning a job? After i set my zeros and go to start a job, the first thing that happens is the axis tries to run up past the limit switch, skips a tooth on the belt and then stops. This happened two times in a row.

My zero was set well below the limit. And my retract height, at the usual 10mm, was also well below the limit.